@TrueNorth77 playing around with logic games like Human Resource Machine, Autonauts, and/or tools like Scratch, maybe some of the heavy engineering games (later on) like Oxygen Not Included or Factorio, and eventually books.

in the past i would have said GameMaker but that sort of went away, now its just Scratch and GDevelop, RPG Maker, RPG In A Box, maybe TyranoBuilder, basically just the ones that let you make really basic games without having to know a whole lot about what you are doing.

human resource machine is literally assembly programming heavily disguised as writing lists of instructions for little minions to follow.